Maslenico — rusa (kaj slava) festo

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Hello everyone

and welcome to my kitchen!

Today I will make blini

because today is a holiday in Russia

which is called Maslenitsa

and I’ll tell you a bit about it.

We do this holiday every year

sometime around the end of winter.

It depends when the
Orthodox Easter happens.

So this holiday happens just
before the start of a big fast

so you have to eat loads

and usually you eat loads of blini

or pancakes.

And today I’m also making blini.

And maybe you’re wondering
why I’m using a teapot

to make batter,

but the problem is that
I don’t have many containers

and using a teapot to make blini

actually has an advantage

that you can more easily
pour the batter into the pan.

The idea of this holiday is to
say goodbye to winter and welcome summer

and also to take care of
the fertility of the land

and to ensure a good harvest.

I read that you have to think of
all your dead relatives

because they used to believe
that everyone who died in the family

is inside the ground

so for that reason they can influence
how good the harvest will be

and that’s why they honoured the memory
of relatives in various ways.

So why eat blini?

Many Russians believe that it’s

because blini are a symbol of the sun

but I explored the topic

and I found out that it’s actually because

blini are a typical food
to honour the dead.

So that’s why they made
a lot of blini, ate them,

and the leftovers you
had to take to the graves

of your relatives.

But these days nobody does that.

Nowadays we just pig out on blini
the whole week

and then later some people hate blini

and don’t want to eat them anymore.

So usually you eat blini
with “сметана”, or sour cream,

which I’m doing now

but actually I’m not sure

because I’m in France

and I bought this “crème fraîche”

and that seems like сметана

but it’s not quite the same.

But nevertheless it’s edible and tasty!

And another thing that you can
add to blini

is this.

This is condensed milk

with sugar.

And it’s really sweet and tasty.

Yeah, and if you’re not vegetarian

you can also eat it with caviar.

So now I’m on my balcony

to show you how great the weather
is in Marseille.

And no, it’s not to make you jealous

because not even
I’d be jealous of myself.

I still have to live here
during the summer

and it’ll be roasting!

But to tell you a bit about how
usually around this time

in normal Russia, not in France,

it should still be cold

and there should still be snow

so typical past-times during
Maslenitsa are sledging,

snowball fights and
jumping through the fire.

So at least for the first two
you need snow

which I don’t have here in France.

And the last thing that you can do

is burn a huge effigy of Maslenitsa

and that way you completely
say goodbye to winter

and a new year starts

and you hope that the year will be good

and summer will be warm.

A really important hope for Russia!

And the last important thing
that you do on Sunday

is ask for pardonon from pretty much
all of your friends

and relatives.

That’s the so-called pardoning Sunday.

So I ask for pardon
for not doing a video

for such a long time

and if you want more videos

about Russia or France, or anything,

like this video and
subscribe to my channel!

And I’ll see you in the next video.

See ya!